Time Out

It’s a beautiful evening in Queens, New York tonight. The air has a cool bite to it. There are a few clouds in the sky, but not enough to obscure the deep blue and deepening orange of the fading sunset.

I have nowhere to be tonight. No errands to run. No relatives to visit. No calls to make, forms to fill out, information to hunt down and organize.
No one to comfort, nothing to attend to.
Just have to figure out what’s for dinner, and have a nice quiet meal with my wife.

Later on, I may watch some of the Presidential Debate. Maybe not. Yes, I’ve already decided I’m voting for Obama. (You’re welcome to criticize below, just be polite about it.) Maybe I’ll turn on the ps3 and play a game.
I might strum my guitar for a bit. There’s a song I’m trying to learn that still needs a lot of work.

At some point, I’ll sit under the stars I can see from our porch and have a cigarette. Maybe I’ll have a beer with it. I’ll read a bit, check my email, but mostly, just sit and relax quietly.
There will be music.

Later on, I’ll go to bed. My girl (TMWGITU) and I will go through our nightly routine. We’ll make jokes about each other. We’ll complain to each other about setting our alarms for tomorrow.
I’ll change out my earring.
We’ll get under the blankets and I’ll put my arm around her.
Her feet will be freezing. I’ll shout when she puts them on me, and she’ll laugh at me.

It will be a quiet night at the Guapo household, like it hasn’t been for a while.

I’m looking forward to it.

The Friday Foolishness posts will continue (as long as I can think of polls – never a guarantee). Other than that, well, I was never a prolific poster. As stuff occurs to me, and as I can set more adventures on the page, or trifectas or beatnik poetry slams, I’ll post them. Just no idea how often.
You’ll still see me on twitter, and on your blogs. As much as I like trying to tell a good story here, I really love listening to all your stories.

So not goodbye, just a pause – a time out.
And if you need me, hey, I’m easy enough to find…

Nope, nothin’ like it. 🙂 Nice! I love Left 4 Dead, Skyrim, Bioshock, Dead Space, mostly things involving zombies or aliens or knights. I’m also thinking of picking up Resident Evil 6; I like to hang in the background once a new game comes out and wait to see what other gamers – or just my copy of Game Informer – has to say about it first, and GI gave it a 8.75. I’ll be picking it up this week!

sigh… since you aren’t leaving forever, I will be understanding and compassionate, supportive and all that muckity goo 😉 if you were leaving for good I would be raising a big stink and running around like a crazy woman – good thing I am not crazy right? No…,I mean good thing you are taking a break ..hahaha I got that mixed up. Take care my friend and may you have peace in your calm… 🙂
I love that sunset picture btw – really cool..

You know, Guapsterola, my dear friend. I’m wondering if blogging is a “been there, done that” thing. When i first started, I followed several wildly successful people (like yourself) who signed off. I was so disappointed because I’d just found them and wondered how could anyone ever give up the great posts and following they had. But…now I understand. Sometimes it’s time to invest more in other areas. see more places, travel, read, volunteer, build something tangible. Or…just relax. Several of my favorite bloggers have shut down for a while, recently. For every time there is a season. Now’s the season. Enjoy yourself. It’ll make me smile to think of you, sitting back and watching the skyline.

Yeah, I’ve seen some favorites log out completely too, Barb.
I’ll keep chugging along with the Friday posts, just going to fall off any sort of race to post more or more frequently – I want to be able to maintain the…distinctiveness…of my posts.
No plans at all to ditch this completely.

And on the same note, it’s a pleasure to see you posting more frequently again!

Everyone needs to relax every now and then, even though it’s sad for us that you need to ;).
No, seriously, it sounds like a great plan, Guapo. O, and with the little knowledge I’ve got from the American politics, I’d vote for Obama as well. Just sayin’.

I love this little glimpse into your night off, Guap. A slow landing into the Ordinary. Enjoyment of those little routines and predictable habits filling in the space between bigger stories… a wonderful way to live. Thank you for sharing.

Enjoy yourself, your wife and her cold feet. Have a blast but come back as often as you want. I find that blogging is more rewarding when I feel like I have something to say than when I’m just posting to get my stats back up.

This is my favorite part of the above post: “Her feet will be freezing. I’ll shout when she puts them on me, and she’ll laugh at me.” When you get to this level, you basically share souls. Take as much downtime as you need. We’ll all be here when you get back (I subscribe so I get the updates whenever they come in). Glad to hear you will enjoy yourself!

Well, I think you SHOULD feel good about that, man. I’ll look forward to seeing your stuff on Fridays and whenever. I didn’t look through the above comments yet, but I’m hoping nobody jumped on your choice to vote for Obama. Now, there’s PLENTY of reasons to give someobdy s*** for voting for either of the major candidates, and if this post were called “Why El Guapo is voting for Obama” such criticism might be appropriate. But that’s not really what this post is about, is it?

Just the same, I hope you ended up playing video games or guitar instead of watching. Do we really learn anything from the debates except that these two intelligent, good-looking (and deeply-flawed) men can make points off each other for 90 minutes?

Well, I’m very glad to hear you’re going to keep up with Friday posts, otherwise we can’t be bookends to the week anymore & that would make me very sad! I will miss you Guap, you’ve been so kind & thoughtful to me. I hope you get a great rest & recharge of your batteries. Please keep us up to date when you can & an occasional comment is always welcome.

Sounds wonderful – and I love the picture too. I went to New York in January 2003, the first time I’d ever been on a plane….oh, I think I’ll blog about this memory! Sorry for digressing – your night sounds wonderful, I love it when we get nights like this. What did you eat? 🙂

Everyone needs a break, even super bloggers such as yourself. I used to post every day, now I am lucky if I get one in per week. maybe I take cue from this and take a break as well (as soon as I figure out how to finish my current tale of the Holy Wars). I look forward to reading your comments, they keep me on my toes.
Take Care and enjoy!